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Painted Wood Beer Plaque

OK, so this is pretty much one of my favorite things I’ve ever done. And I gave it away.

I mentioned in my Potter Pub Sign post that I had an idea to do a painted wood sign for a craft exchange. Well, this is the sign. It’s only the second thing that I’ve ever done with a reverse stencil technique, but I love it so very much. And I gave it away in the exchange! And the worst part: I did a ton of work tracing and editing the beer glass image in the Silhouette Studio software and somehow I didn’t save it. So I’m sure that I could recreate it to make one for myself, but it will definitely take some time and effort.

After I created the design, I cut it out of vinyl (the vinyl was everything that’s cream in the image) and applied it to the wood plaque that I’d painted a few coats of cream acrylic paint. After the vinyl was applied, I painted over the inside portions of the design with a few coats of gold acrylic paint, and the outside of the design with the a few coats of the cobalt blue. When everything was dry, I very carefully peeled off the vinyl design. Peeling it off was a little nerve-wracking, but weirdly pretty fun!

But seriously, how cool is this?! Pretty cool. The quote is one that is often misquoted as Ben Franklin’s (though he did write something very similar about wine), but is still a good one regardless. The cobalt blue, cream, and gold color combination is one of my favorites. I’m definitely pretty proud of this and I hope I can get my second attempt at it to turn out half as well as this one did!

About Ali

I'm a mom to a gorgeous little guy named Max. I work outside the home full time, but in my "spare" time I love learning and am always working on projects that let me broaden my knowledge of sewing, photography, and any number of things that pique my interest!